Tureck Bach Research Institute

04/21/2022

https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/classical-conversations/2022-04-20/tureck-bach-research-institute-comes-to-interlochen

The recordings and research of renowned Bach pianist and scholar Rosalyn Tureck will now be housed at Interlochen Center for the Arts.

04/19/2022

https://www.interlochen.org/music/fennell-music-library/tureck-bach-research-institute

In order to ensure the continuation of collaborative projects, learning, and performances uniquely championed by Dr. Rosalyn Tureck, the Tureck Bach Research Institute merged with Interlochen Center for the Arts in 2022, gifting its assets and intellectual property rights to the school and combining...

08/31/2012

This month, we're pleased to make available the fourth and fifth (of five) parts of Dr. Tureck's third Regents Lecture at the University of California, San Diego in 1966:

* http://www.tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part4/
* http://www.tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part5/

These two parts feature a fascinating discussion of ornamentation, drawing on Bach's little-known Aria variata in A minor, BWV 989.

06/15/2012

For this month, we've added the third part of Dr. Tureck's lecture from February 1966:
* http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part3/

In this section, she discusses instrument choice and notes inégales.

The previous two parts are also available:
* http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part1/
* http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part2/

(Note: This is a written transcription of an audio recording of a lecture. Thus, there are some demonstrations at the keyboard and the chalkboard that are not preserved.)

05/14/2012

This month, we're pleased to announce the posting of the first two parts of Dr. Tureck's third regents' lecture in 1966 at UC San Diego:
* http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part1/
* http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents3/part2/
This lecture features a fascinating discussion of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue (BWV 903), as well as some interesting anecdotes about historical performance.

03/17/2012

This month, the final part of Dr. Tureck's second lecture in 1966 at UC San Diego. She discusses the relationship between the left and right hands, and how compositional choices and form infuence performance decisions. http://www.tureckbach.com/documents/regents2-part3/

This is the kind of form that you read more about in textbooks — the suite form. The suite form, rather the dances in suite form are built in a simple way — you will read in the textbook — you start in the tonic and you move to the dominant and you end the first section in the dominant and that i...

02/14/2012

This month, the second of three parts of Dr. Tureck's 1966 lecture at UC San Diego. In this section, she discusses the relationship between what's on the page, and what the performer should do, relating a funny anecdote about cadenzas. http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents2-part2/

The melody simply is always flowing. All the music is always melodic which is as it should be according to the way Mozart wrote his music. And it is not possible to make this incisive, rhythmic staccato that is supposed to be the fashion in playing Mozart today. You can't do it. The piano won't let ...

01/23/2012

Given article from this month's focus on the Italian concerto, we wish to point you to Dr. Tureck's 1963 televised performance of the first two movements: http://tureckbach.com/media/historic-tv/italian1/ AND http://tureckbach.com/media/historic-tv/italian2/

01/23/2012

This month, we're pleased to present the second lecture in Dr. Tureck's 1966 series at UC San Diego. In it, she discusses Bach performance on the piano vs the harpsichord and the Italian Concerto. http://tureckbach.com/documents/regents2-part1/

... in exploring the music of Bach with you — in the opening up the whole concept which led to the very structures that Bach himself used and worked in, and the capabilities of instruments, and the styles of performance. How that's all very ambitious and — however I try to keep this non-technical an...

12/03/2011

This month we feature the third, and final, part of a lecture lecture from October 1963 given by Dr. Tureck at the University of Washington.

10/23/2011

This month, we're featuring the first part of Dr. Tureck's lecture held at the University of Washington in October 1963. Parts two and three to follow! http://www.tureckbach.com/documents/washington-university-1963-part-1/

I am going to play for you the C-sharp major Prelude and Fugue, first on the piano and then on the harpsichord. (plays piano) For this I must change my shoes. (plays harpsichord) Perhaps you heard some difference in the way I played the Prelude and Fugue on the piano and on the harpsichord. I also h...

09/21/2011

We are pleased to announce this month the final installment of Dr. Tureck's lecture given at the University of California, San Diego in January 1966. http://www.tureckbach.com/documents/regents-lecture-3/

Now von Bülow — you know we musn't be too trivial about these people — he was a great man; he was a great musician — but at the same time he simply didn't know very much about this particular angle. I make this sort of preface to my remarks because it is so easy to make fun of figures in the past...